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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oscar talk about concerning the country?
(a) The lack of a good educational system.
(b) The class structure that keeps people poor.
(c) Its noble history.
(d) Freeing it.

2. Why does Anita go to her uncle's house?
(a) To see if he has secretly returned.
(b) To check out something she wonders about.
(c) To see if he left any clues about where he is..
(d) To feed his cat.

3. What does Anita hear her father talk about on the phone that she finds confusing?
(a) Vacations.
(b) Bees.
(c) Boarding schools.
(d) Butterflies.

4. Why do the teacher and the two visitors step into the hallway?
(a) So the teacher can show the new boy his correct classroom.
(b) The classroom is very noisy.
(c) So the students can go on with their classwork.
(d) To talk in privacy.

5. Why is school not opening on time?
(a) Many people are going to the United States to witness JFK's inauguartion.
(b) A fire damaged the cafeteria and auditorium.
(c) A hurricane damged many of the buildings.
(d) The government said they were not allowed to open.

6. What is the weather like?
(a) Cool.
(b) There is a hurricane.
(c) Warm.
(d) Hot.

7. What does the teacher tell Carla to do?
(a) Repeat her last lines.
(b) Help another girl with her lines.
(c) Pack everything she owns, not just the necessities.
(d) Write a list of all the props needed for the play.

8. What aspects of her country and of the United States does Anita compare?.
(a) Elections.
(b) Freedoms.
(c) Religions.
(d) Foods.

9. Who comes over to spend time with Sammy?
(a) Sammy's second cousin.
(b) Michael.
(c) No one.
(d) Oscar.

10. What time of year is it when the novel opens?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Easter.
(d) Almost Thanksgiving.

11. What is the class preparing to do?
(a) Go trick-or-treating.
(b) Fly an American flag.
(c) Put on a passion play.
(d) Put on a Thanksgiving play.

12. What does Anita realize about Sam?
(a) He is brilliant.
(b) She wants him to be her boyfriend.
(c) He has a core of wildness in him.
(d) He has special talents.

13. What are the men in dark glasses using as an excuse to search the compound?
(a) That someone reported smoke coming from the compound.
(b) The disappearance of Carla's family.
(c) That someone reported gun shots coming from the compound.
(d) The fact that someone has made out-of-country phone calls from their home.

14. What does Lucinda say the men know about their cousins?
(a) That they are out of this country, but not yet at their destination.
(b) That the cousins have been arrested.
(c) Where the cousins are.
(d) Nothing.

15. Why does Anita's mother say she and Anita's father are staying in the Dominican Republic?
(a) To wait for Anita's mother to give birth.
(b) For Anita's father to run for public office.
(c) To try to sell the business.
(d) To fight against the things that are wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anita's mother want her to do with her diary?

2. With whom does Anita talk after going to her uncle's house?

3. What is Anita inclined to say about Oscar's comments about the country?

4. What does Mami have Anita do after seeing the black Volkswagons?

5. Where is Anita when some black Volkswagons appear?

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